fish sauce

I was always intimidated by the ketchup recipe in Nourishing Traditions. And I thought, ‘why make my own ketchup? That's weird!'. Well since I am committed to making EVERY recipe in the book I decided to try this one, and I'm so glad I did!

Tomato ketchup is from what I can tell from my research, an American invention. However, it evolved from Asian and Indian versions of fish sauce added to vegetable pastes. Tomatoes were not the original vegetable used, it was actually a variety of whatever was available locally, including mushrooms. The ketchup (or catsup) we are familiar with today actually originated in the US in about 1813 in a recipe book. Heinz started producing their ketchup in 1876.